Cisco Partner Programs

Accelerate Your Growth and Profitability

The Cisco Resale Channel Program enables our
partners to develop technology skills breadth and
depth such that they can provide broad, integrated
network solutions, highly specialized solutions, or both.
Furthermore, the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach
has been integrated to help partners successfully deploy,
operate, and optimize Cisco solutions. By earning Cisco
career certifications and specializations, Cisco partners
are able to provide opportunities for customers to
accelerate their growth, differentiate their business,
and increase their profitability.

Cisco specializations include four distinct levels that
directly reflect the partner’s depth of sales, technical,
and services expertise in a particular technology

Entry: The SMB Specialization recognizes partners
that have completed technical training in switching,
routing, security, and wireless solutions for small
and medium-sized businesses with fewer than 250
employees.

Express: Two Express Specializations are available.
The Cisco Express Foundation Specialization
recognizes partners that have completed integrated
training in routing and switching, wireless LAN,
and security technologies. The Cisco Express
Unified Communications Specialization recognizes
partners for their knowledge and expertise in selling,
designing, installing, and supporting converged data,
voice, and video networking for small and mediumsized
businesses.

Advanced: Partners can achieve Advanced
Specialization in unified communications, security,
wireless LAN, routing and switching, and datacenter
technologies. Cisco Advanced Specializations
recognize partners for their knowledge and expertise
in selling, designing, installing, and supporting
solutions for a wide range of customer needs—from
small to medium-sized businesses all the way up
to larger enterprise organizations.

Master: The Master Specialization
recognizes partners with a highly
qualified practice in a specific
technology. Master Specialization
builds on the advanced specializations
and recognizes an elite group of
partners that have the most in-depth
technology skills and

Cisco Certified Partners have met rigorous standards
for networking competency, service and support, and
customer satisfaction. Partners are certified at four
levels. Each level reflects a partner’s skills breadth
across key technologies to ensure their ability to deliver
integrated solutions.

Select Certified Partners have achieved
the Cisco SMB Specialization, which
focuses on small and medium-sized
business customers with fewer than 250
employees. Select Certification reflects
a partner’s technology and business
expertise specific to the SMB market.

Silver Certified Partners have
achieved two of the following Advanced
Specializations: Unified Communications,
Routing and Switching, Security, and
Wireless LAN; or have achieved the
Express Unified Communications
Specialization and one of the following
advanced specializations: Routing and
Switching, Security, or Wireless LAN

Gold Certified Partners have the
broadest range of expertise by achieving
all of the following four Advanced
Specializations: Unified Communications,
Routing & Switching, Security, and
Wireless LAN.

Cisco Certified Partners have access to the full
spectrum of Cisco Channel Partner Program
resources, enjoy a close relationship to Cisco’s
worldwide sales and service organizations, and
have access to the latest technologies.

Where Do You Go from Here?

No matter where you’re focusing your business,
there’s a Cisco Certified Partner ready to work toward
your success. Take advantage of the world-class
knowledge, experience, and professionalism that only
a qualified Cisco Certified Partner can deliver.